Good morning peeps, Another weekend and I got the movies almost right again check out previous post to see how I did. But the winner was Jim Carey’s ‘A Christmas Carol’ making $31 million, Disney is a little worried because the movie cost $200 million and it also played in IMAX taking all of that the movie probably should have made more. ‘Couples retreat’ is a hit, holding on in it’s fifth week on the seventh spot. The bomb of the weekend was Cameron Diaz’s ‘The Box’ which opened with a terrible $7.9 million, I think it was a bad weekend to open this movie it should have opened the Halloween weekend in my opinion it would’ve played better. The surprise was ‘Precious’ which made 1.8 million and it played in 18 theaters (numbers LATIMES).
1. “A Christmas Carol” (Disney): Opened to $31 million domestically, $12 million from 18 foreign countries.
2. “This Is It” (Sony): Declined 40% on its second weekend to $14 million. Domestic total is $57.9 million, foreign is $128.6 million.
3. “The Men Who Stare at Goats” (Overture/BBC/Winchester Capital): Debuted to $13.3 million.
4. “The Fourth Kind” (Universal/Gold Circle): Launched with $12.5 million.
5. “Paranormal Activity” (Paramount): Fell 48% on its seventh weekend to $8.6 million, bringing its domestic total to $97.4 million.
6. “The Box” (Warner Bros./Radar/MRC): $7.9 million opening.
7. “Couples Retreat” (Universal/Relativity): Pulled off the amazing feat of not declining at all from last weekend, grossing $6.4 million once again. U.S. and Canadian ticket sales after five weeks have reached $96 million. Overseas, it has collected $28.8 million in 18 territories so far.
8. “Law Abiding Citizen” (Overture/Film Department): Dropped only 17% on its fourth weekend to $6.2 million. Domestic total: $60.9 million.
9. “Where the Wild Things Are” (Warner Bros./Village Roadshow/Legendary): Fell 29% on its fourth weekend to $4.2 million. $69.3 million in domestic ticket sales so far.
10. “Astro Boy”(Summit/Imagi): $2.6 million on its third weekend, down 25%. $15.1 million domestic total.
